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Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Even with a more open system for legally accepting immigrants, Japan has an extraordinarily closed system for culturally accepting immigrants. An immigrant to Japan is considered an outsider to much more of an extent than other countries.

And it is a lifelong stigmatization as well. You will never be one of them, no matter how hard you try.

Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Why is that a bad thing? Every single race or culture has a right to want to preserve itself. Maybe you have some personal issues you need to work out before you go off projecting self hatred onto other cultures.

>Every single race has a right to want to preserve itself and it's culture. "Japanese" isn't a race, and culture isn't a function of racial identity. If these things were true, then American culture would belong only to one race, and it clearly doesn't.

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Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that a bad thing? Every single race or culture has a right to want to preserve itself. Maybe you have some personal issues you need to work out before you go off projecting self hatred onto other cultures.

>Every single race has a right to want to preserve itself and it's culture. "Japanese" isn't a race, and culture isn't a function of racial identity. If these things were true, then American culture would belong only to one race, and it clearly doesn't.

Japanese is a race.

Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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So it seems not even a nuke can kill Japanese fascism.

Ideological and nationalistic flamewar aren't allowed here. We ban accounts that do this, so please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17274714 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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What is a race?

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Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Every single race has a right to want to preserve itself and it's culture. "Japanese" isn't a race, and culture isn't a function of racial identity. If these things were true, then American culture would belong only to one race, and it clearly doesn't.

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Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Even with a more open system for legally accepting immigrants, Japan has an extraordinarily closed system for culturally accepting immigrants. An immigrant to Japan is considered an outsider to much more of an extent than other countries.

And it is a lifelong stigmatization as well. You will never be one of them, no matter how hard you try.

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Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Even with a more open system for legally accepting immigrants, Japan has an extraordinarily closed system for culturally accepting immigrants. An immigrant to Japan is considered an outsider to much more of an extent than other countries.

And it is a lifelong stigmatization as well. You will never be one of them, no matter how hard you try.

You can never ever become Chinese either. Nor Indian. Nor Nigerian. Nor Russian. Never mind Kuwaiti. The exception here is the west, both in terminology used for people originating elsewhere, and in actual beliefs.

[You, personally, may possibly have one exception on this list, roughly if you come from the edge of one of these, but never more.]

Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Even with a more open system for legally accepting immigrants, Japan has an extraordinarily closed system for culturally accepting immigrants. An immigrant to Japan is considered an outsider to much more of an extent than other countries.

The kind of xenophobia you'll be facing is pretty tame compared to most other parts of the world though. Especially if you're a skilled worker from a developed country.

Japanese are indifferent and non-confrontational. If you don't care about what people think and don't try to integrate too hard, life isn't bad.

Re: Famous for its resistance to immigration, Japan opens its doors

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Every single race has a right to want to preserve itself and it's culture. "Japanese" isn't a race, and culture isn't a function of racial identity. If these things were true, then American culture would belong only to one race, and it clearly doesn't.

Japanese is a race.

No, "Asian" is a race, "Japanese" is a nationality, which doesn't necessarily require one be Asian.
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